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• Dara Birnbaum obituary

  12-05-2025 18:06
  Pioneering American video, installation and media artist who used television as her enduring materialDara Birnbaum’s reinvention of video art was born of frustration. In 1977 the American artist was reading Screen magazine, then full of academic essays deconstructing the language of cinema.While she was keen on applying psychoanalysis to understand moving image, and felt a strong kinship with the burgeoning feminist discourse, Birnbaum, who has died aged 78, became exasperated by the lack
  
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• E.1027 - Eileen Gray and the House by the Sea review – extraordinary architect’s story told (again)

  12-05-2025 10:00
  The third film in a decade about Gray tells – with an exasperating lack of passion – a story of explosive emotion, creativity and betrayalThere is some exasperatingly passionless and obtuse direction in this detached, sometimes almost somnolent drama-documentary about the extraordinary Irish architect and designer Eileen Gray, played here with a distracted air by Natalie Radmall-Quirke. (This film comes after another odd docudrama about Gray, Mary McGuckian’s The Price of Desir
  
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